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A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783736819252

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A Season in Hell is an extended poem written and published by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, for example the Surrealists. Henry Miller was important in introducing Rimbaud to America in the sixties. He once attempted an English translation of the book and wrote an extended essay on Rimbaud and A Season in Hell titled The Time of the Assassins. The poem is loosely divided into nine parts, some of which are much shorter than others. They differ markedly in tone and narrative comprehensibility, with some, such as "Bad Blood," 'being much more obviously influenced by Rimbaud's drug use than others, some argue. Academic critics have arrived at many varied and often entirely incompatible conclusions as to what meaning and philosophy may or may not be contained in the text, and will continue to do so.

A Season in Hell and the Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell and the Illuminations Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Galaxy Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195017609

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A Season in Hell and the Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

Although he abandoned poetry before he was twenty-one years old, and wrote for only five or six years in all, Arthur Rimbaud has had an extraordinary influence on modern poetry. His work helped inspire poetic Symbolism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Rimbaud dreamed of re-creating life through his words. Not content merely to describe the world, he longed to reorder it through his revolutionary poetry. He rebelled against all forms of hypocrisy, as well as against conventional concepts of love, morality, religion, and art. He even dreamed of liberating women from "endless servitude." Written a century ago, A Season in Hell and The Illuminations read like the works of an avant-garde poet of today. In her Introduction dealing with Rimbaud's life and work, Enid Rhodes Peschel discusses his concept of the voyant, the poet-visionary he dreamed of becoming through a "reasoned deranging of all his senses." A Season in Hell, which combines autobiography with self-appraisal, vision and hallucination, reflects Rimbaud's tortures in trying to be a voyant. The forty-two poems of The Illuminations, kaleidoscopic evocations of a universe in continual evolution, are further evidence of his attempts to reach this transcendent state. Enid Rhodes Peschel has succeeded in not only translating these works but in recreating them. Eye, ear, mind, and heart have all been engaged in her effort to capture the tone and rhythm of Rimbaud's language as well as the quality of his thought. Book jacket.

Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre

Arthur Rimbaud
Une saison en enfer Le bateau ivre Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811201856

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Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése.

Rimbaud Complete

Arthur Rimbaud
Rimbaud Complete Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307824103

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Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason. Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell. In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ô chateaux,” Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art. Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.

A Season in Hell and Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell and Illuminations Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0918526892

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"With skill and imagination, Bertrand Mathieu gives us an intimacy of the spoken American that allows readers to absorb themselves in Rimbaud's private drama as in an obsessive dream of our own.... Mathieu has earned our gratitude and praise for his accomplishment: to have given Rimbaud his contemporary relevance for us."--David Ignatow

A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition)

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell The Drunken Boat Second Edition Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811221030

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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition) by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig. New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths.” Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether. New Directions’s edition was among the first to be published in the U.S., and it quickly became a classic. Rimbaud’s famous poem “The Drunken Boat” was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as “the first punk” — a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry. This new edition proudly dons the original Alvin Lustig–designed cover, and a introduction by another famous rebel — and now National Book Award–winner — Patti Smith.

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud
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Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1420949160

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Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of "Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of these forty-two poems almost all are in a prose poem format, the two exceptions are "Seapiece" and "Motion," which are vers libre. There is no universally defined order to the poems in "Illuminations," while many scholars believe the order of the poems to be irrelevant, this edition begins traditionally with "Après Le Deluge" or "After the Flood." Albert Camus hailed Rimbaud as "the poet of revolt, and the greatest." The worth of this praise for Rimbaud can be seen in "Illuminations," one of the most exemplary works of his poetic talent.

A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780595313433

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Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin homework for his fellow students and appeared, for a time, to raise the general standard. He criticized every popular structural form and his writings provided a new basis for creative literature in Europe. At the age of 21 Rimbaud renounced writing to explore distant countries. In 12 years he passed through almost 28 countries and amassed a small fortune in gold before complications from a gangrenous leg injury led to his untimely death. He became the first European to travel through northern Ethiopia. Confronted in North Africa by an employer, who told him his adolescent prose was not only alive in Europe but launching a career of its own, is quoted as one histrionic outburst. His former employer, Alfred Barley, wrote: [Rimbaud] would never allow me to mention his former literary works. Sometimes I asked him why he didn't take it up again. All I ever got were the usual replies: "Absurd, ridiculous, disgusting, etc."

Seasons in Hell

Mike Shropshire
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Author : Mike Shropshire
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626812611

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“A funny, revealing, Ball Four–like romp through mid-seventies baseball” from the longtime sports columnist and author of The Last Real Season (Booklist). You think your team is bad? In this “disastrously hilarious” work on one of the most tortured franchises in baseball, one reporter discovers that nine innings can feel like an eternity (USA Today). In early 1973, gonzo sportswriter Mike Shropshire agreed to cover the Texas Rangers for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, not realizing that the Rangers were arguably the worst team in baseball history. Seasons in Hell is a riotous, candid, irreverent behind-the-scenes account in the tradition of The Bronx Zoo and Ball Four, following the Texas Rangers from Whitey Herzog’s reign in 1973 through Billy Martin’s tumultuous tenure. Offering wonderful perspectives on dozens of unique (and likely never-to-be-seen-again) baseball personalities, Seasons in Hell recounts some of the most extreme characters ever to play the game and brings to life the no-holds-barred culture of major league baseball in the mid-seventies. “The single funniest sports book I have ever read.”—Don Imus “The locker-room shenanigans of a lousy team of the 1970s.”—Publishers Weekly

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0060904909

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Arthur Rimbaud by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

Presents a new translation and a revised chronology along with a sketch of the poet's life.

I Promise to Be Good

Arthur Rimbaud
I Promise to Be Good Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307431257

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One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now. A moving document of decline, Rimbaud’s letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud—presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man—is unveiled as “diligent in his pursuit of his goals . . . wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything.” I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason’s authoritative presentation of Rimbaud’s writings. Called by Edward Hirsch “the definitive translation for our time,” Mason’s first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud’s poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. “These letters,” he writes, “are proofs in all their variety—of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage—for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud.” I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.

Selected Poems and Letters

Arthur Rimbaud
Selected Poems and Letters Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141932347

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Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.

A Season in Hell & Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud
A Season in Hell Illuminations Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307801821

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A Season in Hell & Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason “The definitive translation for our time.” –Edward Hirsch From Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self. As a companion to Rimbaud’s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason’s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud’s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power. This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud’s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations. With A Season in Hell, they cement Rimbaud’s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.

Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems

Arthur Rimbaud
Illuminations and Other Prose Poems Book PDF

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811201848

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Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

The definitive translation of the one of the brightest geniuses of French poetry.

A Cold Day in Hell

Stella Cameron
A Cold Day in Hell Book PDF

Author : Stella Cameron
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460308523

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'Tis the season to be wary... Christmas is coming and all is far from calm in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. Newcomer Christian DeAngelo--Angel to his friends--is at his wit's end trying to manage Sonny, the hotheaded nineteen-year-old everyone believes is his nephew. In fact, Sonny is the orphaned son of a notorious mob boss, a protected witness...and Angel's responsibility. Angel has been commiserating with Eileen Moggeridge, whose lonely son Aaron has latched on to Sonny and gotten into deeper trouble than ever. But nothing could prepare Angel and Eileen for the boys' latest crisis: as they are horsing around in the swamp one afternoon, a shot rings out. Aaron is hit, but was the bullet meant for Sonny? Suddenly, goodwill toward men is in short supply and Angel doesn't know who's more dangerous: the hoodoo mystic with an eerie hold over the boys, the hit man roaming the bayou or Eileen's volatile ex-husband, Chuck.